Authorities raid home of suspected would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh — who has truck with Biden-Harris sticker

Authorities have raided the North Carolina home of suspected would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh — whose pickup truck has a Biden-Harris sticker on the bumper.

It’s not clear if the bulletproof vest-clad officers found anything inside the Greensboro house, which they surrounded, made sure was empty and searched in the dark late Sunday, according to video published by the Times, a UK outlet.

“Police! Make yourself seen!” an officer yelled as authorities made their way inside with flashlights and drawn handguns.

Secret Service and Homeland Security agents raiding the Greensboro, North Carolina, home of Ryan Routh on Sept. 15, 2024. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

Law enforcement officers shining a flashlight near the house’s fence during the raid. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

It was unclear if the officers discovered anything in Routh’s Greensboro house. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

Law enforcement arrested Routh, 58, after he allegedly stalked former President and current GOP nominee Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course Sunday afternoon.

Routh had an AK-47-style assault rifle, the barrel of which a Secret Service agent spotted poking out of a bush two holes ahead of where Trump was, according to the Daily Mail.

Routh was arrested after a plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump was foiled at his Palm Beach golf course on Sept. 15, 2024. MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images

Ryan Routh’s house in Kaaawa on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Photo by EUGENE TANNER/AFP via Getty Images

A truck with a Biden-Harris bumper sticker parked outside Routh’s Hawaiian house. AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy

The agent opened fire on Routh, who was within 300 to 500 yards of the former president — well within the rifle’s effective range.

The bullets missed Routh but scared him off, officials said. The suspect fled but was collared soon after, based on a golf course witness’s description of his car, during a traffic stop on I-95.

Here’s what we know about the assassination attempt on Trump in Florida:

Routh — who voted for Trump in 2016 but turned on him after the Jan. 6 riots, among other things — left a voluminous online presence that showed support for figures on both sides of the aisle, including Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard and Nikki Haley.

Eventually, the suspect began supporting the Biden-Harris ticket, which he endorsed with a bumper sticker on his white pickup truck at his Hawaii home, the Mail said.

A sketch of would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh in Florida federal court on Sept. 16, 2024. Lothar Speer

Routh was charged with federal gun charges. Lothar Speer

Routh in police custody shortly after Secret Service agents opened fire on him on the edge of the golf course. via REUTERS

He registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, voter records show. He most recently voted in person during the state’s March Democratic primaries.

Routh has also made 19 small donations since 2019 to ActBlue, a Democratic political action committee, campaign finance records show.

On Monday morning, a shackled Routh was led into federal court in Florida to face charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, according to Politico. It wasn’t immediately clear what his felony conviction was for.

Routh was able to get within 500 yards of Trump with a rifle and a GoPro camera.

The initial criminal complaint didn’t include specific charges that he tried to kill the former president, the outlet said.

The potential assassin — who has a lengthy rap sheet that includes a 2002 charge for possessing a weapon of mass destruction — also had in his possession backpacks and a GoPro camera with which he planned to film the shooting, officials said.


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Routh’s neighbors in North Carolina have described him as “a little cuckoo” but said they were still surprised he tried to take Trump’s life.

“I mean, trying to shoot Trump? That’s a lot,” a resident said.

“I would have never guessed, and I would have swore up and down, ‘No, that’s not him,’ ” she said.

“I just can’t believe it. I mean, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I mean the pictures and stuff and all, then I wouldn’t be able to believe that.”

Routh’s mugshot after a 2010 arrest in Guilford County, North Carolina. Guilford County Sheriffâs Office via AP

Routh said on social media in 2020 that he voted for Trump four years before but had hoped he would be a “different and better” president than he was a candidate.

“We all were greatly disappointed and it seems you are getting worse and devolving; are you retarded,” Routh wrote at the time. “I will be glad when you gone.”

He even self-published a 2023 book — “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War” — in which he described Trump as a “fool” and a “buffoon” for several of his actions and policies.

In his book, Routh added that he got “so tired of people asking me if I am a Democrat or Republican as I refuse to be put in a category.”

With Post wires

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